Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Chocolatey, package manager for Windows

Installing WinMerge via Chocolatey, a Linux-style package manager for Windows. Well, it's not really a Linux-style package manager, especially since it won't automatically find dependencies, but for those who like the command line or just want to try a different way of installing Windows programs than actually visiting a website, downloading the program, and running the installer, this is quicker and fun. Perusing the list of programs in the database is educational as well for software junkies.

To save a list of the current database, type something like the following:

clist > c:\choco-list.txt

Found this via Lifehacker.

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